Voice Post Meme

[kate_nepveu]

Seen at yhlee's, though I was A Rebel! and ignored most of the questions in favor of reading from the opening of The Fortunate Fall.

Something I forgot to say is that I recently listened to a recording of an oral argument I did, and I was disappointed that my voice was kind of . . . ordinary.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

Also re: my geekiness: went looking for an online pronunciation of "Voskresenye" so I didn't screw it up.

Chad came home just as I was finishing and I was embarrassed, so I forgot to say that yes, this quote is also in my userinfo, where as I say I am not *nearly* as dramatic as that.

And I now have a new appreciation for audiobook readers, listening to all the distracting little noises I didn't even know I was making.

[kate_nepveu]

I am not brave, I am an anal-retentive control freak.

Something I'm working on is the tendency of my voice to swing up? At weird places? As though I'm asking questions? Even though I'm not? Which I think is a gender stereotype thing and I don't want to do.

[keilexandra]

I know davekirtley's voice has a tendency to end all his sentences with a rising question tone, though I wasn't aware it was a female stereotype.

[keilexandra]

And, I'm not quite sure why the link isn't working, but I refer to David Barr Kirtley.

[kate_nepveu]

It's lj user, not lj-user.

And I'm basing the stereotype thing on general experience, not anything academic or citeable.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

I think at the moment I'm doing something a little closer to that because I know I'm being recorded

Yeah, your voice sounds a little lower than I remember from when I met you at Boskone a few years back.

[kate_nepveu]

I think so too, though of course it's hard to tell both from the inside of my head and from the quality of the recording.